Nazi extermination camp: New spokesperson for the survivors of Auschwitz

Eva Umlauf, a German-Jewish pediatrician, psychotherapist, and Auschwitz survivor originally from Slovakia, has been elected the new president of the International Auschwitz Committee. The 82-year-old succeeds the Polish-Jewish journalist Marian Turski, who died in Warsaw in February at the age of 98, as the committee announced in Berlin over the weekend. According to the committee, Umlauf is one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz: Born into a Jewish family in a Slovak labor camp in 1942, she was deported to the extermination camp at the end of October 1944 along with her pregnant mother and father. Her father was shot during a death march, and she and her mother survived the camp.